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Diversity Fund Graduate Travel Award

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology offers a limited number of awards to support students traveling to its annual convention. Awards from the SPSP Diversity Fund are devoted to increase diversity within personality and social pychology.

Award Info

Description

About the Award

SPSP has established a fund devoted to increasing diversity within personality and social psychology. As part of this initiative, eligible graduate students are invited to apply for travel awards to attend the SPSP annual conference. Travel award winners will receive $500 to be used to cover conference-related expenses, including transportation, lodging, food, and conference registration. Additional Honorable Mention recipients may be honored with a lesser award amount.

SPSP is an international organization and will consider applications from students both inside and outside the United States. All applicants should explain how their participation at the conference advances SPSP's goal of enhancing diversity.

The SPSP Diversity and Climate Committee will also host a reception for award recipients during the conference (time and location to be announced). Award winners are required to attend this reception, where they will have the opportunity to meet with an admired scholar in social and personality psychology of their own choosing.

Students who have not previously received a travel award may apply for both a Diversity Fund Travel Award and a Graduate Student Travel Award in the same year. A student will only be selected to receive one of the awards.

Selection Process

Award decisions will be based on the excellence of the applicant’s scholarly record.

Eligibility

Applicants for the award are required to be SPSP members.

Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate program with an emphasis in social/personality psychology at the time of the convention.

Applicants must be a member of an underrepresented group in social/personality psychology (these groups include, but are not necessarily limited to, ethnic and racial minorities; first-generation college students; lesbian, gay and bisexual students; transgender students; and students with a physical disability).

Submision Requirements

Presentation abstract for a submitted conference presentation (poster, symposia or data blitz). This is not a requirement, but priority may be given to students presenting at the conference.

A 250-word essay in which you describe your research interests, career goals, and how you would benefit from a Diversity Fund Graduate Student Travel Award

How to Submit

The submission period for awards for the 2018 convention has closed. Submissions for the 2019 convention will be taken beginning in July 2018.

Past Recipients

2017 Convention

Rob Adelman

Rafael Aguilera

Miriam Alvarez

Maira Areguin

Jessica Benson

Katlin Bentley

Benjamin Blankenship

Malik Boykin

justin Brienza

Gabriel Camacho

Henri Carlo Santos

Linda Chang

Karina Corona

Tangier Davis

Lucy De Souza

John Dennem

Michael Doane

Cydney Dupree

Priscilla Fernandez

Abdiel Flores

Fiona Ge

Adriana Germano

Amit Goldenberg

Eric Gomez

Fausto Gonzalez

Fallon Goodman

Mark Hoffarth

Olivia Holmes

Elif Ikizer

Faizan Imtiaz

Drexler James

J. Katherine Lee

Karen Key

Tianyi Li

Nigel Mantou Lou

Asia McCleary-Gaddy

Adriana Medina

Pegah Naemi

Thuy-vy Nguyen

Yopina Pertiwi

Miao Qian

Yang Qu

Jeff Ramdass

Steven Roberts

Eric Russell

Heidi Vuletich

Sarah Ward

Bradley Weisz

2016 Convention

Analia Albuja, Rutgers University

Olivia Atherton, University of California Davis

Angela Carey, University of Arizona

Katelynn Carter-Rogers, Maastricht University

Stephanie Chen, University of Michigan

Ben Chun Pam Lam, Iowa State University

Crystal Clarke, New York University

Stephanie Cross, University of Oklahoma

Gregory Davis, Harvard University

Veronica Derricks-Mosher, University of Michigan

Cameron Doyle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Arianne Eason, University of Washington

Jim Everett, University of Oxford

Johanna Folk, George Mason University

S. Mason Garrison, Vanderbilt University

Alexandra Garr-Schultz, Northwestern University

Sa-kiera Hudson, Harvard University

Pui Hung Hui, University of Cambridge

Kyonne Isaac, Princeton University

Morgan Jerald, University of Michigan

Dushiyanthini Kenthirarajah, Duke University

Jinhyung Kim, Texas A&M University

Franki Kung, University of Waterloo

Jennifer LaCosse, Florida State University

Sarah Lamer, University of Denver

Talya Lazerus, Carnegie Mellon University

David Lee, University of Michigan

Ryan Lei, Northwestern University

Mengyao Li, University of Massachusetts

Sai Li, University of Cambridge

Sarah Liu, Personality Aging and Health Lab

Chieh Lu, Nanyang Technological University

Guannan (Jackson) Lu, Columbia University

Heather Maranges, Florida State University

Satia Marotta, Tufts University

Kibby McMahon, Duke University

Yara Mekawi, University of Illinois

Harrison Oakes, University of Waterloo

Irmak Olcaysoy Okten, Lehigh University

Elise Ozier, Indiana University

Christopher Petsko, Northwestern University

Stacy Priniski, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lindsay Roberts, University of Toledo

Hadiya Roderique, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Achala Rodrigo, University of Toronto Scarborough

Julian Rucker, Northwestern University

Andrea Ruybal, Claremont Graduate University

Manuel Salinas, University of Northern Iowa

Elizabeth Seto, Texas A&M University

Holly Shablack, University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill

Natasha Thalla, Lehigh University

Christopher To, New York University, Stern School of Business

Phuong Vo, Wayne State University

Carla Zimmerman, Texas A&M University

Contact

For more information on the Diversity Fund Graduate Travel Award, please contact the SPSP Meetings Department at meetings@spsp.org.

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